CHAIR

DANIEL KISS

Dr Daniel Kiss (D.Sc. ETH Zurich and M.Arch. Harvard University) is lecturer in the Institute for Urban Design, ETH Zurich. His field of expertise comprises theories of urban form, strategic design, as well as post-socialist urbanization. Besides his research activities, he teaches urban design studios, conceptualized and teaches the reading seminar ‘Texts for Urban Design’, and lectures on strategic design. He also organizes and moderates the Network City Landscape Institute's (NSL) Doctoral Colloquia.

Since 2012, he also leads the research platform ‘Urban Made’, whereby the research team studies the reciprocal relationship between locally embedded economies and urban space with the goal of integrating its potentials into strategic design schemes for Zurich's fringes.

Prior to joining ETH Zurich, Daniel had worked as project architect with Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland (2006-2008), and is founding partner of the Basel-based architecture practice XM Architekten (since 2016).